In Chaldea, the twin sister of Egypt, daughter of _Poseidon_, king of the "Lands beyond the sea" and Lybia, we find that notwithstanding the apparent polytheistic character which, from the earliest times, religion had assumed, it was possible for the priests and learned men, if we give credence to Pythagoras, Democritus, and other philosophers, to account by esoteric explanation for the multiplicity of their gods, resolving them into the powers of nature, thus reconciling the whole scheme with monotheism. In fact, above and apart from the personages which peopled their Pantheon and were reverenced with equal respect by kings and people, they recognized a superior deity, Ra, so far removed from their first triad, that they did not know how to worship it. The meaning of the name RA seems to have been unknown to the historians. They only assert that it means God emphatically; but its origin still remains a mystery. In Egypt they gave that name to the "Sun" particularly, as the fount of all things, the life-giver and sustainer of all that exists on earth. LA, in the Maya language, means "that which has existed forever. The eternal truth." So it is evident that the ancient Chaldeans recognized a supreme being, a divine essence, _Ra_, to which the Triads were subordinate. The same conceptions about Deity existed in India from the remotest antiquity. H. T. Colebrooke, in his notice on "the Sacred Books of the Hindoos" says: "In the last part of the _Niroukta_, dedicated exclusively to the divinities, it is thrice affirmed that there are only _three gods_; and that these three gods designate _one sole deity_. The gods are _three_ only, whose mansions are the Earth, the intermediate regions and heavens; that is the fire, the air, and the sun; but _Pradjapati_, the Lord of all creatures, is their collective God. In fact there is but one God, the "great Soul" _Maha-atma_. It is called the "SUN," because the sun is the soul of all beings, of all that moves, and of all that does not move. The other gods are only parts or fractions of his person." The belief in a Triune God has also existed from very early ages among the Chinese philosophers. Lo-pi, a Chinese writer, who flourished toward the eleventh century of the Christian era, during the Songs dynasty, explaining certain passages of the _Hi-Tse_, says: That the "Great Term," is "the Great Unit" and the great Y. That the Y has neither body or shape. That all that has body and shape was made by that which has no body or shape. Tradition recounts that the "Great Term" or the "Great Unit" comprehends three; that one is three and three are one.